Smithson soon began to develop major earthworks, placing an artwork directly into a landscape ... Baxter likens them to “giant pterodactyls.” Robert Smithson never mentioned the pelicans in his ...

Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world ...

Robert Smithson created Spiral Jetty on Utah's Great ... In the 1970s, Smithson began making earthworks, the art pieces that would define his career. Per the Holt/Smithson Foundation, he was ...

Robert Smithson was one of the titans of the Land Art, or Earthworks, movement, spearheaded in the 1960s by a group of artists undaunted by the mechanics of carving light-filled spaces out of an ...

“For most of us, the little we know of Robert Smithson is that ... That’s in part because Smithson’s most important works are site-specific earthworks, designed to be consumed by time ...

“Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson,” which just unveiled at SITE Santa Fe ... It was part of the critical 1968 “Earthworks” show at New York’s Dwan Gallery. Fernández’s Drawn Waters (Borrowdale) ...

Twice in the course of a thirty-minute interview with Tacita Dean, her eyes move across the room and narrow-in on the media coordinator, who… ...

Most closely associated with the land art movement, Holt is best known for her large-scale earthworks, including the monumental ... in particular her husband and land art figurehead Robert Smithson.

Prior to that, she had curated a small exhibition at the DMA, “Robert Smithson ... since the ’70s. Other earthworks in the show fall into the category Smithson coined as “non-sites ...

Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork is ...

The Holt/Smithson Foundation has released previously unpublished black-and-white archival images of the Spiral Jetty to commemorate 50 years since the death of Robert Smithson on July 20 ...